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...puritanized fiction based on a brutish factual account of a castaway (which it was), and presents a New Robinson who is not nostalgic for a lost culture. He re-creates his world from scratch, dreaming into being a manservant named Snibbins and a three-legged female companion called Wendy Mae. The course of true creation never runs smoothly. "Thus the logically perfect hero," writes Lem, "outlines a plan that later will destroy and mock him-can it be, as the human world has done to its Creator...
...onetime tennis instructor, Cahnman began playing the Chicago market three years ago when he gave up his job as a computer-time salesman, scraped together $5,000 and bought a permit to trade Ginnie Mae futures. Although he refuses to divulge his earnings, he has done well enough to buy a full membership in the Board of Trade for $135,000, which allows him to wheel and deal in all phases of the market. But there have been frightening lurches along the way. "Three tunes I've lost massive amounts of money," admits Cahnman, who is married...
Most Promising Oldcomers: Mae West in Sextette, her first major movie in 38 years, and Lassie in The Magic of Lassie, her first film since...
...bloodlines. Both loved black rhythm-and-blues music, and could write it with such glancing wit and thorough funk that their songs sounded fresh off the streets. It is worth keeping in mind that at the time of the first major Leiber-Stoller hit, Hound Dog, released by Willie Mae ("Big Mama") Thornton in 1953, pop music had its own kind of enforced segregation. The sudden, seismic synthesis of mainstream pop and down-home rhythm and blues was performed by Elvis Presley, who took R&B, fused it with a little country raunch and came up with rock...
...openly and peacefully in a small town, in which the good woman kills the villain and the police don't bother to investigate, in which lesbians and straight women, rich women and poor women live together without suspicion. It's not that all this isn't possible. But Rita Mae Brown never allows any of these conflicts to get out of hand. It's so much like those Lassie episodes we adored when we were kids, in which some heart-wrenching and highly unlikely disaster seemed ready to swallow everyone and was resolved in half an hour. Friendships...